Improvement in scale-beams



.H. L. GRISELL.

SCALE-BEAM. 4I To.1'78,629. Patented June13,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAMIL. GRISELL, OF PENNVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCALE-BEAMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,629, dated June 13, 1876; application lled April 18, 1876.

To all 'whom it may concer/n Be it known that I, HIRAM L. GRISELL, ot' Pennville, in county of Jay and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Scale-Beam, of which'the following is a speciiication My invention is a contrivance ot' tables with the beams and Weight of a scale, for the computation ofthe values of fractional quantities.

The invention will iirst be described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure I represents one side elevation, and Fig. 2 represents the other side elevation, of my improved sca-le, and Fig. 3 is a top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts.

A is the bearing; B, a principal part ofthe weight; C, a sixteenth part; and D another fractional part, which, together with C, makes a twelfth part. The top line of ligure E on both sides of the beam represents the ounces of the avoirdupois pound, which the weight-is adjusted to weigh. F represents price-columns on one side, being the same at the weight and at the outer end of the beam. Gr represents difterently-graduated price-columns on the other side, and the lines H represent the values of the fractional quantities according to the scale of prices of one side, and I the same on the other side.

Example: If lif'tcen cents7 worth of an article worth twenty cents a pound is required, move the weight along the beam until it arrives at fifteen on the line-marked twenty at the end, when 'it will show twelve ounces as the re quired quantity.

Other things may be computed in the same Way. I also have the top edge of the scale'- beam divided into twelve parts, corresponding to the ounces of a Troy pound, and I have made the separable parts UD for Weighing` drains avoirdupois and scruples apothecaries7 weight, the part C representing one drain avoirdupois for each ounce-mark on the beam, and the two parts -O and D representing two drains apothecarics weight for each ounce marked on the top of the scale. The line J represent-s a yard-scale for calculating` yardmeasures by the same devices.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

vA scale-beam, having Weights B O D and columns of figures E F Gr H I arranged, as shown and described, to adapt it to be used in the manner specified.

HIRAM LAURENCE GRISELL.

Witnesses:

H. Z. JENKINS, MARSHALL F. BAILY. 

